efficience Obs. or arch.
(ɛˈfɪʃəns)
[ad. L. efficientia, noun of quality f. efficiens: see efficient and -ence.]
1. The exercise of efficient power; causative or productive activity.
| 1669 Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 37 The first piece of this Divine efficience is..referred to the Divine Ideas. a 1680 J. Corbet Free Actions i. §1 God's Efficience is concern'd in the Event decreed. 1794 Mrs. Piozzi Synon. I. 319 The surprising efficience of two bodies..to produce a third unknown before. |
2. Effectiveness, efficacy.
| 1865 Sir J. K. James Tasso xii. xxviii, Do thou for her with such efficience pray. |